@LindsayJS

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Best ROI in LA: turn a boat parking lot -- boats!! -- into Courtyard Urbanism. Housing can be beautiful. Marina Del Rey:
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Step 1: make the street great Step 2: build housing
Pop Base
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London’s iconic Oxford Street will be pedestrianised between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street from today onwards. (bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmzx…)
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
@MayorofLondon23h
A new era for Oxford Street starts now.
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Tyler Englander@TylerEnglanderOct 25
Election Day is one milk away
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Chicago, now Victoria, BC ... the city planners are all becoming courtyard urbanists. It's amazing, wonderful to see. The explanation here is amazing. You will recognize a lot of the language and themes, here. A coincidence? "To support the realization of Vision 2050, the perimeter block form is envisioned for the Residential Fabric" "The perimeter block form locates new development along the outer edge of residential blocks, with principal facades oriented towards fronting streets and interior court yards. This front-to-back orientation of buildings creates and preserves green open space in back yards while defining and activating streets. Over time, interior courtyards can become more contiguous with connected uses, amenities, and ecological functions. The form enables a greater number and diversity of homes to be developed in low-carbon built forms while achieving social and environmental benefits." BRAVISSIMIA VICTORIA
Russil Wvong@russilwvongOct 25
Replying to @UrbanCourtyard @jasonc_nc @musharbash_b
Victoria, BC is reducing minimum front setbacks in order to support future perimeter blocks, as parcels on a block are redeveloped. morehousing.ca/victoria-ocp
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In Oslo, 79% of children walk to school. 79% is an ASTONISHINGLY high rate! Oslo children can walk to school because they live NEAR their school. Oslo is made up of courtyard blocks, which create a form of urban density that works beautifully for families because it provides a YARD
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
@UrbanCourtyardOct 24
“Family sized” doesn’t mean family friendly. None of these units passes the kitchen window test—can you see your kids playing in a yard from your kitchen window Love to see single stair advancing and housing being built Still a long way to go before we are at family-friendly density
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I love this - but it still looks silly just sticking up there. There’s so much to be said for streets of ~one height.
Micah Springut
@mspringutOct 24
A reminder: when they build those skinny mid block towers, they don’t have to suck
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So moving
Rogue POTUS Staff
@RoguePOTUSStaffOct 24
Maybe this is crazy. But a woman who built herself up from being a homeless child to an accomplished physician, seems preferable to a man born into the privileges of private education and frequent international family vacations but never learned decency.
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Consulting Comedy
@consultingcmdyOct 24
Uber CEO: How can we increase our revenues? McKinsey consultant: Imagine Uber but no car
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Build beautiful cities
Perseus
@PerseusLeGrandOct 23
Je veux créer une génération prête à défendre le Beau. Vous aussi ?
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Coby
@CobylefkoOct 24
Spectacular storefront design. Made me stop, turn around, and text friends about it. Color and thoughtful design are so important to a street’s vibrancy and a small business’s success!
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Jason,
@jasonc_ncOct 23
America is number one. At killing pedestrians. But we can’t redesign streets to be safer because it might slow down emergency response. To the already-dead pedestrian. Caused by the street design.
Greg Anderson
@WalkableAustinOct 21
WSJ front page: American roads becoming deadlier for peds Austin has long req’d 25’ of clear fire access, the standard fire code requires 20’. Wider streets encourage dangerous speeds We need to build fire trucks around the city we want, not build our city around fire trucks
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Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholasOct 24
Unironically, every new hospital should have a beautiful one of these at it’s heart. That would be provably good for the physical & mental health of patients and staff. You can read more about how and why…
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Bobby Fijan
@bobbyfijanOct 24
Rowhomes are fantastic
Ryan Musser@musserryanOct 23
Love the way golden hour sun shines on DC row homes
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Bhaumik Gowande@bhaumikgowandeOct 23
These are the cities millennial and GenZ want.
Cuidem Sant Antoni@CuidemSantOct 23
Com a Copenhaguen, cada vegada més persones a Barcelona trien la bicicleta per una qüestió pràctica: arriben abans a la feina o al centre d’estudis. No ho fan tant per ecologisme o per salut, sinó perquè és la manera més ràpida i eficient de moure’s per la ciutat.
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Honestly we need to re-legalize these
ChinaFile@ChinaFileOct 21
A Microsoft AI scientist chose to live in a tiny room in San Francisco’s Chinatown for less than $1,000 a month. @annakook gives us a rare look inside a single-room occupancy building, where residents have private rooms but share kitchens and bathrooms.
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Nishanth Reddy@ai_nishanthOct 23
Blew my mind. This. Bicycle paths in Europe. 🤯
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💯 Bus lanes /BRT > light rail —Takes 10 min/mile to paint - dries in 5 minutes and is drivable —Costs $10k/mile in paint South America figured out the BRT and we should just do that.
Bhaumik Gowande@bhaumikgowandeOct 23
An articulated e-bus carries ~160 pax for ~$750k. A single tram carries a similar number for ~$3–6m 4–8× the vehicle cost, before tracks & power infra. Shared bus lanes let multiple services use the same road Cities must not struggle financially while providing basic mobility
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Mike Madrid
@madrid_mikeOct 22
For reference this is a photo of Bobby @PulidoForTexas concert in Edinburg 5 days ago. Who did it better?
Daniella Diaz
@DaniellaMicaelaOct 22
.@KenPaxtonTX is expected to speak here in Edinburg, TX, in 30 minutes. The venue is noticeably bigger than the spot in Brownsville. They are serving food as well for guests.
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If we care about the people who will live in these neighborhoods - they don’t want glass towers. They want courtyards, community, walkability, natural materials and high quality. Like Alicia’s beautiful vision :
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
@UrbanCourtyardOct 22
This is a neighborhood. Latest Courtyard Urbanist proposal is a walkable, fine-grained neighborhood for ~2800 homes plus retail in Tanforan, San Bruno. Retaining Target, movie theater, and BART station. More than 1,000 homes more than current proposal, and brings count of family-friendly homes from 0-2000+. Let people have density AND protected outdoor space AND amazing public realms. Read about it in latest Substack concept proposal piece (link below)
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